TIFFFILE(1)

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✨ TIFFFILE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the tifffile manual page (that's the User Commands one, we're in the terminal now 💅) — let's get into it, this one's lowkey iconic for anyone doing science-y imaging.

🌸 NAME 🌸

tifffile — reads image and meta-data from TIFF, STK, LSM, OME-TIFF, and FluoView files. like, it opens them and tells you what's inside. slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tifffile [options] files...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe check: only a subset of the TIFF specification is supported, mainly uncompressed and losslessly compressed 1-32 bit integer images, plus 32 and 64-bit float images — which are literally the ones everyone uses in scientific imaging. that's the whole point.

TIFF, the Tagged Image File Format, is under the control of Adobe Systems. not us. we just live here.

STK and LSM are TIFF with custom extensions used by MetaMorph and Carl Zeiss MicroImaging respectively. and heads up — currently only primary info records are read for STK, FluoView, and NIH image formats. that's the limit, no cap.

and the main character job of this whole thing: display image data in TIFF files. 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --version — show the program's version number and dip. cute.
  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit.
  • -p PAGE, --page=PAGE — display a single page. just the one. one page and we're done.
  • -s SERIES, --series=SERIES — display a series of pages of the same shape. matching set, we love a theme 🎀
  • --nomultifile — don't read OME series from multiple files. keep it to one file, bestie.
  • --noplot — don't display images. (yes, that's the whole flag. no images. the plot is not plotting.)
  • --interpol=INTERPOL — image interpolation method.
  • --dpi=DPI — set plot resolution.
  • --debug — raise exception on failures. let it crash loudly, we want to know 😭
  • --test — try to read all images in path.
  • --doctest — runs the docstring examples.
  • -v, --verbose — verbose mode. say more.
  • -q, --quiet — quiet mode. say less. 🤫

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Christoph Gohlke <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke> Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others. (sharing is caring 🫶)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the page, bestie!! this was tifffile version 2014.08.24, dated September 2014 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, she's still serving 💜 mwah, go read some TIFFs. periodt. ✨

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